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From: mwm@eris (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 4.3 on VAX 8xxx?
Message-ID: <6651@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 88 00:28:26 GMT
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In article <10284@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
<>I know that 4.3 will not run on an 8XXX machines,
<
<Correct.

Well, almost (as has been pointed out before). If you read 8XXX as
"machines cursed with a BI bus." The 8600 and 8650 predate the BI bus,
and so don't have one. They run 4.3. And run it fast. Our 8650 running
4.3 supports more users than our 8800 running Ultrix 2.0.

<Those who are desperate and hold a 4.3 source license can talk to
<me (and/or hire me at exorbitant consultant rates :-) ) to get
<4.3BSD for the 8200, or any other Vax, as long as I have one to
<play with.  (Want 4.3 on the 8700?  Give *me* one :-) .)

If I give you an 8800, how long will it take to get 4.3 running on
both processors :-)?

	<mike
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